subcontract

Other forms of subcontract

plural

subcontracts·

past tense

subcontracted·

present participle

subcontracting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about subcontract

What does subcontract mean?

subcontract means "arranged for contracted work to be done by others". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in subcontract?

subcontract has 3 syllables: sub-con-tract. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /səbˈkɑnˌtɹækt/.

What is another word for subcontract?

Close synonyms include farm out, job. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is subcontract a common word?

subcontract is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with subcontract?

8 words rhyme with subcontract. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.